Includes ‘In Memory of William Morris’ by Peter Kropotkin.

The Firebrand (Portland, Oregon). Vol. 2 No. 44. December 6, 1896.

Contents: Not Settled Yet by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Free Communism by William Holmes, Sex Ethics by Henry Addis, An Open Letter to Comrades in America by P. Gori, What is Justice? by L. Emerick, In Memory of William Morris by Peter Kropotkin, Literature, Correspondence, Clippings and Comments.

‘The Firebrand’ was an influential anarchist newspaper founded in 1895 and edited by Abe and Mary Isaak in Portland, Oregon. The Isaak family moved to San Francisco after an obscenity arrest and restarted the paper as ‘Free Society.’ The Isaak’s were also members, for a time, of the Socialist Party of America until their expulsion for anarchism. The paper folded in New York City in November, 1904. Free Society also published pamphlets and books, often the for the first time in the United States, of important European anarchist thinkers. Emma Goldman, a contributor to the Firebrand and Free Society, would start ‘Mother Earth’ in 1906 and continue the tradition of Free Society and The Firebrand.

PDF of the full issue: https://files.libcom.org/files/firebrand-v2-n44.pdf